Claims that a deadly explosion in Ukraine's southern Kherson region was sabotage designed to destabilize the area:
Residents of the separatist-held area of Ukraine's Luhansk region are asked if they would like to be able to watch Ukrainian television news:
A new commander of the Ukrainian Navy has been appointed:
A Radio Svoboda report on some of the promises that were made by ministers in the new Ukrainian government:
Russian finance minister discusses Ukraine's debt to Moscow with IMF at meetings in Washington
(TASS) Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov discussed with International Monetary Fund officials Ukraine's debt of $3 billion overdue since 2015.
Representatives of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations did not have official meetings on the fringes of the spring session of the IMF and the World Bank, the minister said.
"As for meetings with the International Monetary Fund, yes, the talks did take place, where we discussed cooperation with the International Monetary Fund on Ukraine's necessary fulfillment of its obligations and on consequences from that default, which Ukraine had on our papers," he said in an interview with the Vesti Saturday weekly television show, adding the talks were under way.
(...) "As you know, Ukraine has changed the government recently, the finance minister, the prime minister, thus the delegation which has come to the G20 summit is not legitimate," Siluanov said.
He said as the Russian delegation prepared its participation in the session, it did not plan meetings with the Ukrainian delegation, "as all earlier contacts demonstrated a lack of productive negotiations process on the settlement of Ukraine's debt to Russia."
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Nearly half of those Ukrainians polled said they support joining NATO:
(Interfax) Less than half of Ukrainians support the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, as is seen from a public opinion poll.
Asked how they would vote if a referendum on Ukraine's accession to NATO were held today, 45 percent of those polled said they would vote in favor of NATO membership, 30 percent would vote against it, 16 percent were undecided, and 10 percent would not cast their ballots.
Asked whether they believed Ukraine would be granted visa-free travel to the European Union in 2016, 20 percent answered positively, 55 percent negatively, and 25 percent were undecided.
The Rating sociological group polled 2,400 respondents aged 18 and older under a contract with the International Republican Institute in all Ukrainian regions except the territory currently not controlled by Kyiv from February 17 to March 4, 2016. The respondents were interviewed personally at home.
Another 1,000 respondents were interviewed in the Mykolayiv and Kherson regions. The margin of error is within 2 percent.
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A piece on new PM Hroysman:
Radio Svoboda video of Ukraine's volunteer regiment, Dnieper-1, celebrating the anniversary of its founding:
There is a new pro-Russian head of the the self-styled People's Council of Deputies in the separatist-controlled part of Ukraine's Luhansk region:
Photos of new police recruits in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia taking their oath on April 16 with Interior Minister Arsen Avakov in attendance.